music21.tie

The tie module contains a single class, Tie that represents the visual and conceptual idea of tied notes. They can be start or stop ties.

Tie

class music21.tie.Tie(type='start')

An object added to Notes that are tied to other notes. The type value is one of start, stop, or continue.

>>> note1 = note.Note()
>>> note1.tie = tie.Tie('start')  # start, stop, or continue
>>> note1.tie.style = 'normal'  # default; could also be 'dotted' or 'dashed' or 'hidden'
>>> note1.tie.type
'start'

>>> note1.tie
<music21.tie.Tie start>

Generally Ties have a placement of None, but if they are defined as ‘above’ or ‘below’ this will be retained. (see: this discussion for how orientation and placement in musicxml are essentially the same content).

>>> note1.tie.placement is None
True

Differences from MusicXML:

• notes do not need to know if they are tied from a previous note. i.e., you can tie n1 to n2 just with a tie start on n1. However, if you want proper musicXML output you need a tie stop on n2.

• one tie with “continue” implies tied from and tied to.

The tie.style only applies to Tie objects of type ‘start’ or ‘continue’ (and then only to the next part of the tie). For instance, if there are two tied notes, and the first note has a ‘dotted’-start tie, and the second note has a ‘dashed’-stop tie, the graphical tie itself will be dotted.

A type of tie that is unknown raises a ValueError:

>>> tie.Tie('hello')
Traceback (most recent call last):
music21.tie.TieException: Type must be one of
('start', 'stop', 'continue', 'let-ring', 'continue-let-ring'), not hello

Tie bases

• ProtoM21Object

• SlottedObjectMixin

Tie read-only properties

Read-only properties inherited from ProtoM21Object:

classSet

classes

Tie methods

Tie.__eq__(other)

Equality. Based entirely on Tie.type.

>>> t1 = tie.Tie('start')
>>> t2 = tie.Tie('start')
>>> t3 = tie.Tie('stop')
>>> t1 == t2
True

>>> t2 == t3, t3 == t1
(False, False)

>>> t2 == None
False

Methods inherited from ProtoM21Object:

isClassOrSubclass()

Tie instance variables

Tie.placement

Whether the tie should go up or down. Can be None, meaning it is unknown or should be determined from context, or ‘above’ or ‘below.

Tie.style

The style of the tie. Currently can be ‘normal’, ‘dotted’, ‘dashed’ or ‘hidden’

Tie.type

The tie type, can be ‘start’, ‘stop’, ‘continue’, ‘let-ring’, or ‘continue-let-ring’.